Day 38: Finally getting pollen; APBE picking up steam
Day 38: Finally getting pollen; APBE picking up steam
The males are all dropping pollen now -- BW2 (massively intersex) is dropping a lot, BW3 (slightly intersex) and BW1 (not intersex) have just started. I did a branch on BW4 with each, and I'll collect a lot more from BW1 over the next week and save some single-use tubes in the freezer for later grows. Despite their intersex traits I think it's still worth sacrificing a small branch each to still make seeds with BW2 and BW3, because for all I know BW1 has some other bad trait(s) I won't want to get stuck with. Oh well.
The full tent. And it is very full, though there is plenty of air circulation around them and a few feet of headroom.
The Pakistan Ryder is still stretching -- it's 17" tall now, last post it was around 14". It's also getting clusters of stigmas on the tops. It's a few days behind the others and may run longer than the WWbx1s and BW, but the BW males have taken long enough to drop pollen that I'm going to have them all going for another five or so weeks regardless.
Meanwhile, WWbx1#1 seems to be done stretching, but the branches are filling in.
One of WWbx1#1's tops.
Bobby's Widow #4 is also done stretching, but staying short and wide.
The Sweet Trainwreck is also still stretching, now 18". It's about a week behind the others, and growing in a narrow vertical column between BW4 and WWbx1#2.
WWbx1#2 is flowering hard too, maybe a day or two behind #1 but ahead of everything else.
Meanwhile, in the other tent, the auto purple bastard eater is picking up steam. It's on day 9 from sprout, though I used a different germination process and that might change the timing a bit. Usually I soak seeds for about a day and a half, then plant them once a radicle emerges, and they take another 2 or 3 days for the germinated seeds to sprout. This time I planted a heavily scuffed seed in a peat puck and planted the whole peat puck in coco as soon as it sprouted, because apparently seeds with the ABC trait are hard to germ and particularly sensitive to being messed with post-germination. The seedling only had cotyledons for the first few days, but since there has been obvious growth with each passing day.
I haven't seen the ABC leaf trait described this way before, but it looks to me like all the leaves are shaped like cotyledons. (It also may have the Bigfoot trait, because I had a hard time getting pictures of it that weren't blurry.) The APBE is in a 1-liter airpot, I might bury the whole thing in a 1-gallon airpot to up-pot it later since it will have the whole 2x2x4' tent to itself. Depending how branchy it gets I might also try taking cuttings from it before it flowers.
The males are all dropping pollen now -- BW2 (massively intersex) is dropping a lot, BW3 (slightly intersex) and BW1 (not intersex) have just started. I did a branch on BW4 with each, and I'll collect a lot more from BW1 over the next week and save some single-use tubes in the freezer for later grows. Despite their intersex traits I think it's still worth sacrificing a small branch each to still make seeds with BW2 and BW3, because for all I know BW1 has some other bad trait(s) I won't want to get stuck with. Oh well.
The full tent. And it is very full, though there is plenty of air circulation around them and a few feet of headroom.
The Pakistan Ryder is still stretching -- it's 17" tall now, last post it was around 14". It's also getting clusters of stigmas on the tops. It's a few days behind the others and may run longer than the WWbx1s and BW, but the BW males have taken long enough to drop pollen that I'm going to have them all going for another five or so weeks regardless.
Meanwhile, WWbx1#1 seems to be done stretching, but the branches are filling in.
One of WWbx1#1's tops.
Bobby's Widow #4 is also done stretching, but staying short and wide.
The Sweet Trainwreck is also still stretching, now 18". It's about a week behind the others, and growing in a narrow vertical column between BW4 and WWbx1#2.
WWbx1#2 is flowering hard too, maybe a day or two behind #1 but ahead of everything else.
Meanwhile, in the other tent, the auto purple bastard eater is picking up steam. It's on day 9 from sprout, though I used a different germination process and that might change the timing a bit. Usually I soak seeds for about a day and a half, then plant them once a radicle emerges, and they take another 2 or 3 days for the germinated seeds to sprout. This time I planted a heavily scuffed seed in a peat puck and planted the whole peat puck in coco as soon as it sprouted, because apparently seeds with the ABC trait are hard to germ and particularly sensitive to being messed with post-germination. The seedling only had cotyledons for the first few days, but since there has been obvious growth with each passing day.
I haven't seen the ABC leaf trait described this way before, but it looks to me like all the leaves are shaped like cotyledons. (It also may have the Bigfoot trait, because I had a hard time getting pictures of it that weren't blurry.) The APBE is in a 1-liter airpot, I might bury the whole thing in a 1-gallon airpot to up-pot it later since it will have the whole 2x2x4' tent to itself. Depending how branchy it gets I might also try taking cuttings from it before it flowers.
